“This partnership reflects our commitment to providing the best patient experience by recognizing nurses that demonstrate not only extraordinary clinical skill, but compassion in the care they provide to our patient each and every day,” said Shelly Major, chief nursing officer at Methodist Hospitals.

The DAISY Foundation was established in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes, who died at 33 of complications of the auto-immune disease Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura. DAISY is an acronym for disease attacking the immune system. During barnes’ eight-week hospitalization, his family felt he and they received excellent nursing care and compassion. One of the goals they set in creating a foundation was to recognize extraordinary nurses and to thank them for the gifts they give their patients and families every day.